One Cake Recipe Lost, Five Found

 Today I wanted to take a treat to my brother in the nursing home and his room mate. I followed a few links on one of my favorite food blogs, The English Kitchen, by Marie Raymer. I'm out of vanilla right now. I've been to the store several times, but those little bottles are so expensive. I put it off. So I was looking for something without vanilla. I found a recipe for Applesauce Spice Cake and I thought the spices might cover the lack of vanilla. It was delicious. My little flip phone does not allow me to upload pictures to the internet or I would have shared one.

When I went back to make a comment, I could not locate the recipe I had made: not by bookmarks, not by searching the site. I know I was on her site as she always uses asterisks around the title like so:

*Applesauce Spice Cake*      Serves 10 to 12
This is a lovely cake that the whole family will enjoy. Deliciously moist and full of the wonderful flavour of spice, studded with soft raisins and crunchy walnuts, this truly is a joy to bake and to eat. The smell of this when it is baking is truly heavenly! 

Ed always saves his goodie for a bedtime snack, but his room mate dove right in and said it was good.  

Meanwhile, I want to share that her main blog, The English Kitcheb, has five lovely recipes for cakes with rhubarb. I truly look forward to trying every one.

I hope you enjoyed your day.

Let's “give God the glory for the things He has made.”

 


 

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